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Big Data News

• R programming language gains on traditional statistics packages August 20, 2014
  The R programming language is quickly gaining popularity over the traditional statistics packages such as SPSS, SAS and MATLAB, at least according to one data statistician who teaches the language.
• TPC helps take the measure of big data systems August 18, 2014
  Comparing commercial Hadoop big data-styled analysis systems might get a little easier, thanks to a new benchmark from the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC).
• Hadoop gets real August 18, 2014
  Its fast and robust data processing and storage power make Hadoop both wildly popular and wildly complex. Here's how four IT leaders have managed to bring Hadoop systems from the sandbox into production.
• SAP makes it cheaper, easier for customers to use Hana in certain scenarios August 12, 2014
  SAP has relaxed hardware requirements for using its Hana in-memory database platform for development and testing, in a move that could make existing Hana customers' operations easier and less expensive while also generating more Hana sales.
• Google's big-data tool, Mesa, holds petabytes of data across multiple servers August 8, 2014
  Google has found a way to stretch a data warehouse across multiple data centers, using an architecture its engineers developed that could pave the way for much larger, more reliable and more responsive cloud-based analysis systems.